Machine for manufacture of



PATENTED APR. 12, 1864.

A. 0. LINDSEY. MACHINE FOR MANUPAUTURE 0F SHOE BINDING.

ALFRED O. LINDSEY, OF GIIARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR-MANUFACTURE OFSHOE-BINDING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 412.300, dated April12, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED O. LINDSEY, of Charlestown, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulmachine for printing skins and cutting the same'into bands to be usedfor making shoe-binding; and I do hereby,

declare the same to be fully described in the following specification,and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1-denotes the machine inside elevation; Fig. 2, a top view of one of thebands made by the machine; Fig. 3,.a top 'andso as to operate in manneras hereinafter explained. r

In Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings,B B B are a series of endless cords orcarryingbands, arranged at equal distances asunder and around two drums,3 4, and so as to run against its bed-drum.5, and also two auxiliary andsupporting or guiding rollers, G9, the said drums and rollers beingarranged with respect to one another and with a frame, A, as shown inFig. 1. A series of stripingrollers, .R R It, provided with an.inkreservoir, 0, into which they partially (enter, is arranged withtheir peripheries between the several bands'B B, and so as to rollagainst a skin while it may be passing be-v tween the said peripheriesand the drum 5.

Each of the striping-rollers should not only may rest against the sameand be arranged with respect to the striping-rollers and thecarrying-bands as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. An endless belt, a, goingaround a pulley, b, and a drum-pulley, 2, serves to put the cutters inrevolution, the pulley b being on one end of the shaft (1 of thecutting-knives. The pulley 2 is fixed on a shaft, f, which carries apulley, it, about which and apulley, 1, an end band, '0', travels. iscarried by a driving-shaft, k, on which there is another who T Z aroundwhich and I I 57 7 a pulley, m, carried by another shaft, man endlessbelt, 0, operates. The drumS is driven by an endless belt, 1), whichgoes around two'pulleys, q r-one being on the shaft n and the otherbeing fixed to the shaft of the said drum. In Fig. 1 the pulleys l 'mand the endless belt 0 are represented in red lines.

When the shaft k is'revolved in the direction represented bythearrow inFig. 1, the several operative parts of the machine will be put inmotionin such manner that whenever a skin is laid on the bands: B B andbetween the drums 3 and 5 such skin will be moved forward betweenthesaid bands and the drum 5 and against the series of cut ters and theseries of striping-rollers, and after having been out into strips andhad each strip striped, as shown in- Fig. 2, such skin or portionsthereofwill be carried over the drum 5 and by it be discharged from themachine, a chute, T, if desirable, being applied to the drum tofacilitate the discharge of the skin or strips therefrom. The strips,after passing from the machine and being dried, are to be cut in twolongitudinally along their middles.

The partssoeut, when overlapped and joincdor connected together at theirends and reduced to one uniform thickness, constitute thearticledenominated shoe-binding.

What 1 claim as my invention is- The machine or combinationsubstantially as; above described, such consisting of the endless seriesof carrying bands H B B, the bed-drum 5, the series otj rotary cutters KK K, and thetstriping mechanism or rollers It and reservoir 0, arrangedand so as to cooperate, and supplied with operative mechanism,substantially as hereinbefore explained.

ALFRED O. LINDSEY. Witnesses HENRY DAVIS, TIMOTHY W. WILLARD.

The pulley l,

